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Animal intruders prompt n€7 rabies warnings ' -~ 10 • ' BY NOAH BARTOLUCCI humans and animals, Sanford On Thursday, a resident of Carr STAFF WRITER said. But if a p'„rson is treated Street called police after spotting raccoon and an. CHAPEL Hill — A within 20 days of being infected, a raccoon in her house. Officers there s a strong chance of recov- chased it out of the house with a opossum wandered into a book ery,she said. broom,police reports said. No one store and a house in separate was injured in the incidents. ''''t incidents last week, prompting "Bites can be serious," Sanford 1'. wildlife experts to repeat rabies said. "Even if the animal doesn't Sanford said that rabies is most t warnings. . have rabies, it could still have a commonly found in raccoons, fox - l es and skunks. Because the ani- This area is rich in wildlife and bacterial infection." people don't realize how On Wednesday, an opossum mans are nocturnal, they rarely active that wildlife is," said Pat entered Internationalist Books by bother . people. But Sanford A Sanford, executive director of the climbing through the attic. Dawn stressed that children and pets. Orange County Animal Protection Pomento, co-manager of the should be kept away from them. , . Society. - store, said she opened the shop If a wild animal gets into the,. y' house, she said, the smartest and found items strewn about. •;) to Sanford, rabies "Tapes and compact discs were thing to do is open the doors and cases have increased in recent overturned, and there were foot- windows. Usually, . the animal . yyears -in the Northeast United prints everywhere — even on the leaves on its own. .'' States. No rabies cases have been "But always call animal con computer, Pomento said. y Oreported in Orange County since "There was a definite gamy trol,'l.Sanford said. "A cornered:; 1954.But last year, Durham Coun- - smell." animal can be dangerous." ty Animal Control trapped a rabid . Animal control officers set a The Orange County Animal Proi. fox. And in A4 offi of this year trap and caught the opossum tection Society will hold a rabies Wake County officials reported Wednesday night. It.was the sec- information and vaccination din- k that a cat had the disease. and opossum captured in the store is Aug. 29 at 1 p:m. in Canboro Rabies is almost always fatal to in as many weeks, Pomento said.- Park. • - - : C� RE ibil 1 . A story in the local • section Monday gave the t incorrect location of IMount McKinley, a •'.. 1 mountain in Alaska.- ' 1 Based on inaccurate `. information provided by • : the Orange County Animal:,.- Protection Society, a story:r in Sunday's North " Carolina section -. incorrectly stated the number of cats that had : - contracted rabies in Wake -: County and the length of the incubation period for .- the disease. No animals . have contracted rabies in Wake County since 1955. .1 . The incubation period can be as short as 10 days after being bitten by a rabid animal,-so people need to i start treatment as soon as possible.